A reception hosted by the Head, Mrs Katy Ricks was held at the Harvard Club in New York on Thursday 30 October. This was the third reunion reception held in New York since 2004 and on each occasion the number of guests attending has increased. About twenty alumni attended plus parents of current students and parents of former students. Among the OS was one who joined the school in 1957 and another who left in 2008 and is now studying at Columbia University.
The purpose of the reception was to maintain contact with former students and to provide an update about the school's recent achievements and news of the next phase of the school's development plans to alumni, parents and other friends of Sevenoaks living and working in the US.
Mrs Ricks welcomed the guests and spoke about our students' academic achievements and recent co-curricular activities. The Development Director, John Walton gave a presentation about the school's strategic development plan and in particular the current project, the performing arts centre due for completion in January 2010.